Softly Quotes

506 quotes by 334 authors

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. — Thomas Jefferson
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in… — Diane Ackerman
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I… — Mark Twain
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly). — Susan Cain
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. ItÂ doesn'tÂ demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softlyÂ and listens… — L. Whitney Clayton
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal,… — Charles Dickens
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you… — Mary Oliver
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly… — Jean Paul
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald… — James Russell Lowell
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. — Walt Whitman
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. — Michael Pollan
Play the last measure very softly. — Anna Pavlova
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. — Philip Yancey
My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboardâ€”my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched… — Ella Leya
Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red.... — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Beautiful is old ageâ€”beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads… — James Anthony Froude
The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. — Eugene Ormandy
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here. — Isaac Watts

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